<div class="im">&gt; I&#39;m not aware of any problems with representing the request with a<br>
&gt; dictionary. Can you give examples?<br>
<br>
</div>The body stream is not part of the HTTP environment. It&#39;s an abuse and<br>
it has the very negative effect of luring developers into further<br>
abuse.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div> </div></div>You mean specifically environ[&#39;wsgi.input&#39;] ? While the file-like interface is difficult, other possible interfaces aren&#39;t so great either. As to putting the request body in the environment, I don&#39;t know what the problem is? Or are you just concerned that people put arbitrary things in the environ? There&#39;s far too many important use cases that are satisfied by the extensible nature of the environ to give it up just because some people believe it is overused.<br clear="all">